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'''''Astral Codex Ten''''' (ACX), formerly '''''Slate Star Codex''''' (SSC), is a [[blog]] focused on [[science]], [[medicine]] (especially [[psychiatry]]), [[philosophy]], [[politics]], and [[futures studies|futurism]]. The blog is written by Scott Alexander Siskind,<ref name="TheVerge"/> a [[San Francisco Bay Area]] [[psychiatrist]],<ref name=nytssc/> under the pen name Scott Alexander.
''Slate Star Codex'' was launched in 2013 and was temporarily discontinued on June 23, 2020.
Alexander also blogged at the [[rationalist community|rationalist]] community blog ''[[LessWrong]]'',<ref name="NewYorker" /> and wrote a fiction book in blog format named ''Unsong''.<ref name="Yudelson Palmer Adler 2017 r542">{{cite web |last1=Yudelson |first1=Larry |last2=Palmer |first2=Joanne |last3=Adler |first3=Leah |date=2017-01-03 |title=The great American kabbalistic novel? |url=http://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/the-great-american-kabbalistic-novel/ |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=[[Jewish Standard]] |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707164130/https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/the-great-american-kabbalistic-novel/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A revised version of ''Unsong'' was published on May 24, 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alexander |first=Scott |title=Unsong Available In Paperback |url=https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/unsong-available-in-paperback |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=Astral Codex Ten |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Unsong-Scott-Alexander/dp/B0D57BYS3Y|title=Amazon.com|website=www.amazon.com}}</ref>
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In 2017, ''Slate Star Codex'' ranked fourth on a survey conducted by Rethink Charity of how [[effective altruism|effective altruists]] first heard about effective altruism, after "personal contact", "''[[LessWrong]]''", and "other books, articles and blog posts", and just above "''[[80,000 Hours]]''."<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Mulcahy|first1=Anna|last2=Barnett|first2=Tee|last3=Hurford|first3=Peter|date=17 November 2017|title=EA Survey 2017 Series Part 8: How do People Get Into EA?|url=https://rtcharity.org/ea-survey-2017-part-8/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429135314/https://rtcharity.org/ea-survey-2017-part-8/|archive-date=29 April 2019|access-date=9 September 2020|website=Rethink Charity}}</ref> The blog discusses moral questions and dilemmas relevant to effective altruism, such as moral offsets (the proposition that good acts can cancel out bad acts), ethical treatment of animals, and trade-offs of pursuing systemic change for charities.<ref>{{multiref2
| {{Cite book|last1=Chan|first1=Rebecca|url=|title=Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion|last2=Crummett|first2=Dustin|date=29 August 2019|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-188069-8|___location=Oxford|pages=|chapter=Moral Indulgences: When Offsetting is Wrong|doi=10.1093/oso/9780198845492.003.0005|oclc=1126149885|chapter-url=https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198845492.001.0001/oso-9780198845492-chapter-5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909014312/https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198845492.001.0001/oso-9780198845492-chapter-5|archive-date=9 September 2020}}
| {{Cite journal|last=Syme|first=Timothy|date=7 February 2019|title=Charity vs. Revolution: Effective Altruism and the Systemic Change Objection|url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10677-019-09979-5|journal=Ethical Theory and Moral Practice|language=en|volume=22|issue=1|pages=93–120|doi=10.1007/s10677-019-09979-5|s2cid=150872907|issn=1386-2820|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909014311/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10677-019-09979-5|archive-date=9 September 2020|via=|url-access=subscription}}
| {{Cite journal|last=Kissel|first=Joshua|date=2017|title=Effective Altruism and Anti-Capitalism: An Attempt at Reconciliation|url=https://www.pdcnet.org/eip/content/eip_2017_0018_0001_0068_0090|journal=Essays in Philosophy|volume=18|issue=1|pages=68–90|doi=10.7710/1526-0569.1573|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909014310/https://www.pdcnet.org/eip/content/eip_2017_0018_0001_0068_0090|archive-date=9 September 2020|via=|doi-access=free|url-access=subscription}}
| {{Cite journal|last=Foerster|first=Thomas|date=15 January 2019|title=Moral Offsetting|url=https://academic.oup.com/pq/article/69/276/617/5289640|journal=The Philosophical Quarterly|language=en|volume=69|issue=276|pages=617–635|doi=10.1093/pq/pqy068|issn=0031-8094|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909014319/https://academic.oup.com/pq/article-abstract/69/276/617/5289640?redirectedFrom=fulltext|archive-date=9 September 2020|via=|url-access=subscription}}}}</ref>
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